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CHADEMA leaders escape Tanzania to Kenya amid rising threats and abductions
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Nov 13, 2025

Facing raids, abductions, and threats to their lives, Tanzanian CHADEMA leaders have crossed into Kenya seeking urgent protection.

38 days of torture: Kenyan activists Njagi and Oyoo, abducted at gunpoint in Uganda, tell harrowing story
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Nov 12, 2025

Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo describe being abducted, held in a freezer, denied family contact, and subjected to starvation and torture during a 38-day...

Kenyan activists Bob Njagi, Nicholas Oyoo to sue Uganda in regional court over abduction
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Nov 12, 2025

After being held and tortured in Kampala, Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo launch legal action against Uganda to challenge cross-border political repressio...

Court told six KWS rangers abducted missing fisherman Brian Odhiambo
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Nov 11, 2025

The fisherman reportedly vanished at Manyani after being apprehended for allegedly trespassing in the protected area.

Court denies IT expert Ndiang'ui Kinyagia’s plea for passport release amid cybersecurity probe
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Nov 10, 2025

Prosecutors informed the court that Kinyagia's travel documents and other items seized during the investigation are crucial to an active inquiry.

868 Al-Shabaab militants killed since February - Somali Defence Ministry
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 06, 2025

According to the 2025 Global Terrorism Index, Somalia ranked seventh in 2024 among countries most impacted by terrorism, with Al Shabaab responsible f...

Kenyan abducted in Ethiopia freed after Sh3 million ransom, flown home
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Nov 05, 2025

Mbugua, who served as a plant manager at Ardash Glass Company, was kidnapped at his workplace in Debre Berhan, in the Amhara region, about 120 kilomet...

Matiang’i raises alarm over Kenya’s image as calls grow for answers on missing Kenyans
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Oct 29, 2025

He pointed to cases where government officials have struggled to provide clear information on the whereabouts of Kenyans detained by a neighbouring co...

Kanja, DPP given seven days to produce missing security analyst Mwenda Mbijiwe
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 28, 2025

The order follows an urgent application filed by Mbijiwe’s mother, Jane Gatwiri, who sought judicial intervention to compel the government to immediat...

Police break up demo at Mudavadi’s office as anger grows over Kampala abductions
Barack Oduor  |  Oct 28, 2025

Police in Nairobi blocked human rights activists from storming Foreign Affairs CS Musalia Mudavadi’s office as they demanded answers over the alleged...

Rights groups condemn silence from Ruto, Museveni as abducted Kenyan activists suffer in Uganda
Barack Oduor  |  Oct 27, 2025

Rights organisations in Kenya are sounding the alarm over the deteriorating health of activists Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, who were abducted in Kamp...

Amnesty flags arrests, abductions and killings ahead of Tanzania’s 2025 elections
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 20, 2025

The report also documented multiple cases of enforced disappearances and killings. In July 2024, Chadema official Dioniz Kipanya vanished after leavin...

High Court asked to compel State to produce missing security analyst Mwenda Mbijiwe
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Oct 14, 2025

Mbijiwe's family is seeking orders requiring top state security agencies to account for his whereabouts, four years after he disappeared under mysteri...

Blogger Ndiangui tells court DCI yet to return his laptops, phones and passport
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Oct 14, 2025

The blogger's latest application comes after Justice Chacha Mwita, on September 16, 2025, declined to grant similar orders sought by his lead counsel,...

UN Special Rapporteur condemns disappearance of Kenyan activists in Uganda
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Oct 10, 2025

The Uganda Police, however, have since refuted claims that the two activists are in state custody. During a press briefing, ACP Rusoke Kituuma said th...

Families demand immediate release of Kenyan activists missing in Uganda
Barack Oduor  |  Oct 06, 2025

In a statement read by representatives of the three organisations and family spokesperson Nobert Ochieng, they said eyewitness accounts indicate the t...

Abductions, torture cases in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania (2024–2025)
Charity Pancras  |  Oct 06, 2025

In July 2025, Kenyan activist Mwabili Mwagodi was abducted in Tanzania, while in May 2025, Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire were also kidnapped an...

Kenya piles pressure on Uganda to investigate alleged abduction of two activists
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Oct 03, 2025

In a statement dated October 3, 2025, the Commission said it had requested Uganda’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to coordinate with local authorities t...

Murkomen promises government action after Kenyan activists vanish in Uganda
Mary Wambui  |  Oct 02, 2025

Njagi and Oyoo, who had joined NUP presidential candidate Bobi Wine’s campaign on Tuesday, were reportedly forced into a vehicle and had their phones...

Lamu family cries for justice as fisherman is abducted from home in Kiunga
Farhiya Hussein  |  Sep 30, 2025

Authorities, however, have offered little reassurance. Lamu County Commissioner Wesley Koech told journalists he was unaware of any security operation...

High Court asked to declare Besigye, Lutale extradition illegal after alleged covert operation
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Sep 29, 2025

The two accuse the Kenyan Government of colluding with Ugandan authorities in a covert operation that violated their rights and undermined Kenya's sov...

Mandera chiefs abducted by Al-Shabaab to receive Head of State Commendation
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 23, 2025

The five chiefs, drawn from Wargadud East, Qurahmudow, and Chachabole administrative units, were abducted in February by suspected members of the outl...

Outrage in Miritini as suspected police abduct brothers, force them to commit crimes
Mary Wambui  |  Sep 18, 2025

The family claims the children were forced into a waiting vehicle by heavily armed men believed to be police officers and driven to an unknown locatio...

Family seeks court intervention in disappearance of security expert Mwenda Mbijiwe
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Sep 18, 2025

Mwenda Mbijiwe was reportedly last seen in Roysambu, Nairobi, in the company of individuals believed to be officers from the Directorate of Criminal I...

Juja MP George Koimburi charged in Sh10 million land fraud case
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Sep 15, 2025

Senior Principal Magistrate Robinson Ondieki released the MP on a cash bail of Sh100,000.

Uganda Law Society condemns killing of lawyer Kyalo Mbobu, says East Africa’s rule of law under siege
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Sep 12, 2025

In a statement released on Thursday, ULS President Isaac K. Ssemakadde said Mbobu’s death was “not merely a loss to the legal fraternity but a grievou...

73% of Kenyans believe government not doing enough to stop abductions, extra-judicial killings - TIFA Report
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 11, 2025

The findings show that a clear plurality of Kenyans, 35 per cent, believe the police and other state security agencies are mainly responsible for extr...

Over 30 aid workers kidnapped in South Sudan this year
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Sep 11, 2025

They added that several of the hostages were later freed after ransom payments were arranged through local intermediaries.

DCI refutes harassment claims by Human Rights Watch official Otsieno Namwaya
Barack Oduor  |  Sep 09, 2025

DCI dismissed the claims a day after Otsieno Namwaya, the Associate Director of Human Rights, spoke to The Eastleigh Voice about his alleged harassmen...

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